A soapstone figure of a Luohan Qing Dynasty, 19th century the slender figure standing wearing a long wide-sleeved robe, a Buddhist lion crouched at his feet with head raised looking up at the ball he holds in his raised left hand, his face with smiling expression, carved from an opaque cream coloured stone with faint russet suffusions, the incised details showing traces of coloured pigments 10 cm